Contributors to Volume 4, Number 2

Michael Drake is a Visiting Fellow in the Politics and Sociology
Sector at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of recent
papers on the sociological of revolution and is currently seeking a
publisher for his 1998 doctoral thesis, Problematics of Military
Power: Government, discipline, and the subject of violence'. He has
taught in sociology at UEA and at West Suffolk College, Bury St.
Edmunds.

Ronit Lentin is course coordinator of the MPhil in Ethnic and
Racial
Studies at the Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin. She is
the
editor of Gender and Catastrophe (Zed Books, 1997) and Europe and
Middle
East editor of Women's Studies International Forum. Her book Israel
and the
Daughters of the Shoah: Re-occupying the Territories of Silence will
be
published by Berghahn Books in 2000. She is the co-editor of Racism
and
Anti-racism in Ireland (Irish Academic Press, forthcoming) and
of
Desperately (Re)searching Women: Feminist Research and Practice in
Ireland
(Institute of Public Administration, forthcoming). She has
published
extensively on gender and the Shoah, gender and catastrophe, gender
and
racism, racism and antisemitism in Ireland and citizenship and
minority
ethnic women.

R. Ruth Linden is an affiliated scholar at the Beatrice M. Bain Group on
Gender at U.C. Berkeley, where she is writing a book about the
biopolitics of breast cancer. She is the author of Making Stories,
Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust (Ohio State
University Press, 1993), which won the Helen Hooven Santmyer Prize. She
has published extensively on the Holocaust, HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, and
reflexive ethnography.

Shelley Mclachlan is a Research Associate in the Department of
Social
Sciences, Loughborough University. She is currently working on a
Government funded
project entitled 'The Social Amplification of Risk,' investigating the
media's portrayal of risk issues and the resulting public perception of
these risks. She previously worked on the above ESRC project
('Information and Democracy'), with Katie MacMillan, carrying out a
large scale audit into the British national daily news coverage. She
is also currently working on the tabloidization and dumbing down of the
British media.

Katie MacMillan is Media Archivist and is currently setting up the
Media and Communication Research Archive (MACRA) for Loughborough
University. Her previous post, as a Research Associate in the
Department of Social Sciences, on the funded project (ESRC L126251016)
from which this article derives, involved studying news media coverage
with regard to its role in informing a democratic electorate,. Her
published articles include a study for Feminism and Psychology on
'speaking for others,' and studies with Derek Edwards on how fact and
accountability are managed in news media stories. She is currently
developing a collaborative study with Malcolm Ashmore and Derek
Edwards, of the 'false/recovered memory' controversy.

Larry Ray is Professor of Sociology at the University
of
Kent, Canterbury. He has written widely on sociological
theory, especially Critical Theory, and the post-communist
transformation. Recent books include "Social Theory and
the
Crisis of State Socialism" (1996, Edward Elgar),
"Theorizing Classical Sociology" (1999, Open University
Press) and (with Andrew Sayer eds) "Culture and Economy
After the Cultural Turn" (1999, Sage). He is co-researcher
with David Smith on an ESRC research project on
racially-motivated violence, within the Violence Research
Programme.

Massimo Repetti studied Anthropology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales
(Paris), under the direction of Michel Agier.
Now he is working in the Redaction of the review "Africa e
Mediterraneo" and is
responsible for social sciences. He edited the last issue : "La
citta
africana" (The African City) no 1/99.

Alan Scott is currently Senior Lecturer in the School of Economic and
Social Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. From autumn
1999 he will be Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck,
Austria. Research interests: political sociology and social theory.
Recent publications include the edited collection The Limits of
Globalization, Routledge, 1997.

Sara Scott is currently managing a research and development project
concerned
with women in secure psychiatric settings at the University of
Liverpool. Her
book on ritual abuse is to be published by the Open University Press
later
this year.

Martin Shaw is a sociologist and professor of International Relations
and
Politics at the University of Sussex, Brighton, England. He is the
author of
Dialectics of War (1988), Post-Military Society (1991) and Civil
Society and
Media in Global Crises (1996), among other books.

Paul Stubbs works on the Globalism and Social Policy Programme (http://www.stakes.fi/gaspp), a
collaboration between The University of Sheffield, Department of
Sociology, and STAKES, Heslinki. Based in Zagreb, he combines research
on transnational communities and social policy with activism with a
number of local social movements and non-governmental organisations.